Compose and Create: creating melodic variations based on a theme
Compose and Create: creating melodic variations based on a theme
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Why this why now
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils have had lots of experience playing tuned instruments.
- Pupils have an established routine for using classroom percussion purposefully in a lesson.
- Pupils have listened, studied and composed across a wide range of musical genres and tonalities.
- Pupils know that rhythm is the pattern of sounds and silences.
- Pupils know that pitch is how high or low the note sounds.
- Pupils know that timbre is the unique quality of sound made by an instrument.
- Pupils know that structure is how a piece of music is formed or organised into sections.
- Pupils understand that music can be notated to replicate a performance and have used various forms of notation.
Threads
Why this why now
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils have had lots of experience playing tuned instruments.
- Pupils have an established routine for using classroom percussion purposefully in a lesson.
- Pupils have listened, studied and composed across a wide range of musical genres and tonalities.
- Pupils know that rhythm is the pattern of sounds and silences.
- Pupils know that pitch is how high or low the note sounds.
- Pupils know that timbre is the unique quality of sound made by an instrument.
- Pupils know that structure is how a piece of music is formed or organised into sections.
- Pupils understand that music can be notated to replicate a performance and have used various forms of notation.
Compose and Create: creating melodic variations based on a theme
In this unit, pupils will compose short variations on a given simple theme using glockenspiels or online keyboards on tablets or laptops. Exploring examples of theme and variations such as 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' will create an understanding of how this structure is formed.
6 lessons in unit
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